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As a non-white Irish citizen going to school here in the 90's, I hear you. I've been through that. But, I don't understand why people think a fork of his work
by jrhey 2mo ago
As a non-white Irish citizen going to school here in the 90's, I hear you. I've been through that.
But, I don't understand why people think a fork of his work magically scrubs his essence from it.
And are they also doubling-down on ensuring his future ideas and commit hashes never find their way into Amiko?
What's the long-term play here because I don't see it other than forking for the sake of changing ownership which does nothing to achieve what the author wants to achieve. A genuine fork which meets his criteria of abolishing DHH would be to completely change the direction and future roadmap while avoiding any future cross-DHH-contamination entirely.
- acdha 2mo agoI think they’re hoping that the people in the community they like will follow. I agree that it that the odds seem daunting - the best example which comes to mind is MariaDB and that took a company as hated as Oracle, but who knows. It also seems like the overall health of the Ruby community will be a factor: it’s easy to imagine people leaving Rails picking more different things like the increasing percentage of people who never used it. A whiff of controversy can be deadly for open source adoption at businesses.